This according to New Yorker editor and writer David Remnick: "Few citizens of the People's Republic stand to benefit more from this summer's Olympic Games, in Beijing than . . . Lang Lang."
The magazine doesn't post the complete article online; if you don't have the print version, here's an abstract. Their site, however, does include this much-emailed video of the young phenom playing piano with an orange:
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